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573 The Underground World of Black-Market AI Chatbots is Thriving

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msmash @ Slashdot · 09/06/2024 12:48 EDT

The Underground World of Black-Market AI Chatbots is Thriving

An anonymous reader shares a report: ChatGPT's 200 million weekly active users have helped propel OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot, to a $100 billion valuation. But outside the mainstream there's still plenty of money to be made -- especially if you're catering to the underworld. Illicit large language models (LLMs) can make up to $28,000 in two months from sales on underground markets, according to a study published last month in arXiv, a preprint server owned by Cornell University.ÂThat's just the t

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